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Examples of stroking
stroking
He was all gooey-eyed throughout dinner, holding her hand and stroking her neck.
From the mirror.co.uk
After they left, the woman's nurse began stroking the face of her dead mistress.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Our grandchildren had great fun feeding and occasionally timidly stroking them.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Manned space missions aren't that useful, except for stroking the national ego.
From the economist.com
It's OK, I say repeatedly, stroking heaving backs, even though it patently isn't.
From the guardian.co.uk
Moss is probably going to be the odd man out, but he's finally stroking the ball.
From the post-gazette.com
In a horseshoe-backed chair on the deck, Kangxi sits calmly stroking his beard.
From the time.com
They push Liverpool back for a minute or two, stroking the ball hither and yon.
From the guardian.co.uk
Do OK at Pizza Passion and you'll see a scene of a girl stroking the chef's face.
From the hecklerspray.com
- (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand; "it took two strokes to get out of the bunker"; "a good shot requires good balance and tempo"; "he left me an almost impossible shot"
- Touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions; "He stroked his long beard"
- Strike a ball with a smooth blow
- Throw: the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
- Row at a particular rate
- A stroke, known medically as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA), is the rapidly developing loss of brain function(s) due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. ...
- The CJK strokes (also known as the CJK(V) or CJKV strokes) are the strokes needed to write the Chinese characters used in East Asia. The corresponding CJKV characters being the characters that come from Chinese Hanzi, and which are now used in China, Japan, Korea, and still a little in Vietnam.
- A bar or stroke is a modification consisting of a line drawn through a grapheme. It may be used as a diacritic to derive new letters from old ones, or simply as an addition to make a grapheme more distinct from others.
